Development Studies

This book investigates how mineral resources can be governed to promote people-centred development in Ghana, focusing on the three main human devel...

Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out ...

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection ...

Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations. Public safety is threatened by high rates of crime especially vio...

An extensive literature has demonstrated that technologies in sub-Saharan Africa are largely inappropriate: that is, that they are typically capita...

The evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for ...

AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recogniz...

The North Atlantic development establishment has had a blemished track record over the past 65 years. In addition to a sizeable portfolio of failur...

This book examines the link between population growth and environmental impact and explores the implications of this connection for the ethics of p...

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water. It outlines how stakehol...

Sustainable development is now widely accepted as a political objective in the UK and elsewhere but to what extent has the UKs rhetoric on sustaina...

Originally published in French as Le territoire européen: des racines aux enjeux globaux, this book reflects the enormous changes that Europe has s...

This book offers an analysis of external dimensions of an emerging economy, India, in the backdrop of neoliberal globalisation. External dimensions...

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the import...

This book examines the key Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) relating to environmental sustainability and provides a cutting-edge assessment of ...

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South. An increased pressure to upgrade older stock, to provide adequate infrastruc...

Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity. This book ...

In most Latin American countries, key officials and political figures have been involved in big corruption scandals in the last decade, leading to ...

The unifying theme of Women and Careers is womens educational and employment success, with the objective of profiling supportive public policy in g...

This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT...

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

South Sudan is one of the worlds most divided and unstable countries. Since achieving statehood in 2011, the country has plunged into civil war (20...

Written by a team of expert practitioners at the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, this book gives an overview of evaluation practice at IF...